Who We Are

Board

	John Lees President and Director	Dr. Lees received his medical degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth in 1982. After he completed his training in Family Practice, he spent the next 25 years in solo practice in Glendale Arizona. In 2008, he joined Deer Valley Medical which subsequently became Honor Health and was there 10 years. He retired from Honor Health in March 2019. Currently he is a retired/volunteer physician and works in free clinics in Phoenix and medical missions abroad. Dr. Lees is Board Certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Practice. He has been a director at the Del E. Webb Foundation since April 2010 and was appointed Vice President in January 2011. He was appointed President in January 2018.
	Nicole Aubin Director	Nicole was born in Phoenix. Her parents moved to Prescott when she was two. She works as a nurse at the local hospital but always finds time for volunteer work in the community and at her church. She makes time for her duties as a director. As the recipient of numerous awards, she is well known as a competent, caring person who is always willing to serve. Nicole lives in Prescott and was appointed a director in 2008. On January 1, 2021, Nicole took over the duties of Grant Administrator.
	Jean Canoose Director	Jean has worked as a freelance computer instructor in Prescott and California designing classes to meet specific needs. She has been a Development Manager for IBM at the Santa Teresa Programming Laboratory, and has worked for Management Services Inc. supervising government contracts and writing grant proposals for government contracts. She has served as Secretary on the Board of Directors for the Yavapai Symphony Association where she wrote grant proposals to receive funding from the Arizona Commission for the Arts, and as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the Prescott Public Library. Jean is a Past President of the Arizona Society of Enrolled Agents and currently serves as Financial Secretary for the Prescott United Methodist Church. She has been a director since April of 2010.
	Richard Miller Director	Richard grew up near Portland, Oregon and after graduating from Eastern Mennonite University in 1976 with a BS degree in Biology, worked for 10 years in the Dialysis Department of Legacy Samaritan Hospital in Portland. Richard then worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 31 years. In 1987 he joined Ortho Biotech (now Janssen Biotech) which required him to move from Oregon to Phoenix. At Ortho Biotech Richard initially worked as an Immunobiology Product Specialist and finally as the National Sales Manager, Immunobiology. After 10 years working at Ortho Biotech, Richard then spent 21 years working for Astellas Pharma in various executive positions including sales, marketing, product development, clinical research, corporate development, and strategic relations. Richard left Astellas in 2014 as the Vice President, Immunology/Transplant Strategic Relations and then joined CTI Clinical Trial & Consulting as the Senior Director, Business Development supporting clinical research projects for biopharmaceutical companies located in the western United States. Richard retired in February 2019 and is currently a volunteer at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, AZ. He has also volunteered as a member of the Arizona Republic's Season for Sharing grant committee and as the Cactus Conference Representative for the Grand Canyon Synod of the Lutheran Church. Richard enjoys traveling with his wife to visit their children in Austin, TX and Highlands, NJ.
	Roger Nusbaum Director	After growing up in Boston, Roger moved out west for college and settled in Arizona in 1990. He has worked in financial services his entire career with stints in operations, sales, institutional trading and since 2004 as a Registered Investment Advisor. Roger has also written extensively about capital markets and investing on his own blog, TheStreet.com and has appeared many times on CNBC and Fox News. Roger has been a volunteer firefighter in Walker near Prescott, where he lives with his wife Joellyn, since 2003 and has been chief since 2012. The Walker Fire Department is the largest volunteer department in the state of Arizona. Roger and Joellyn are avid hikers and have five dogs.
	Jay Fellows Director	Jay grew up in Minnesota and graduated from St. Olaf College, where he also pitched on the baseball team. He currently works as the Director of Operations at his church in Peoria, Arizona, where he and his wife Jody also reside. He spent the previous six years assisting dozens of faith-based non-profits and churches in the area of fundraising, specifically through planned giving. The first 25 years of his work career were spent starting and running various entrepreneurial endeavors. In his free time, you will find Jay with his wife and kids either on the golf course or on a hiking trail in the mountains.
	Doug Johnson Director	Doug has spent more than a decade as a government contractor working on a wide range of technical problem areas including digital signal processing, orbit determination, and cybersecurity. After a decade working in government facilities in Colorado, he moved his family to the Seattle area where he continues to do cybersecurity research and vulnerability analysis.